Open Source·
Mitchell Hashimoto is pulling Ghostty off GitHub. The reason is daily outages.
Ghostty's creator has tracked GitHub outages every workday for months. After 18 years on the platform, he's moving the project. A read-only mirror stays.
Soren Vanek
Open-source and developer-tools beat. Tracks language ecosystems, package managers, and the governance fights that keep showing up on the front page.
Open Source·
Warp's terminal is now open source. The cloud agent platform Oz is the actual product.
Warp released its 36k-star Rust client on GitHub under AGPLv3 on April 28. OpenAI is the founding sponsor and Oz keeps the bills paid.
Open Source·
Arcee's Trinity-Large-Thinking is a 399B open MoE that costs 96% less than Opus
Arcee released Trinity-Large-Thinking on April 1: a 399B-param sparse MoE with 13B active, Apache 2.0 weights, $0.88 per million output tokens, and PinchBench just behind Opus 4.6.
Open Source·
MinIO archived its repo on April 25. The community fork already has the admin console back.
MinIO's GitHub repo went read-only with a 'NO LONGER MAINTAINED' banner pointing users at AIStor. Pigsty's Ruohang Feng forked it and restored the binaries.
Open Source·
Linux 7.1 is yanking ham radio, ISDN, and ATM. The reason: AI bug-report spam.
Jakub Kicinski's networking pull request removes 138,161 lines of decades-old code. Kernel maintainers say LLM-generated bug reports made the old subsystems un-maintainable.
Open Source·
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships Wayland-only, Rust coreutils, and post-quantum SSH by default
Canonical released Ubuntu 26.04 'Resolute Raccoon' on April 23. It's the first LTS without X11, ships kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50, and sets post-quantum SSH on by default.
Open Source·
Mozilla fixed 271 Firefox bugs that Claude Mythos found. Its own tests caught 22.
Firefox 150 shipped Monday with 271 security fixes from Anthropic's Project Glasswing. Mozilla CTO Bobby Holley says Mythos matches elite human researchers.
Open Source·
Inside GitHub's fake star economy: 6 million bought stars and how to spot them
A Carnegie Mellon study counted 6 million suspected fake stars across 18,617 GitHub repos. Here's what the StarScout research actually found and how to read a star count now.
Open Source·
Ruby Central admits 'real financial jeopardy' seven months after the RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central cut its executive director, CFO, and PR firm, and shifted to a volunteer working board. The April 16 letter closes the arc from September's RubyGems walkout.
Open Source·
The FSF just told OnlyOffice it can't use AGPLv3 to block forks
OnlyOffice bolted a 'keep our logo' clause onto its AGPLv3, then accused the Euro-Office fork of violating it. The FSF says users can strip the clause.
Open Source·
Cloudflare open-sourced a lossless LLM compressor that shaves 22% off model weights
Unweight is Cloudflare Research's new BF16 weight compressor. 22% smaller bundles, 13% smaller inference footprint, 30-40% throughput overhead, BSD license.
Open Source·
Rust 1.95 lands with if-let guards and a macro that kills cfg-if
Rust 1.95.0 stabilized cfg_select!, if-let guards in match arms, and a pile of new Vec and atomic APIs. Here's what's actually worth upgrading for.
Open Source·
This week on Hacker News: a WhatsApp CLI, a 20-year-old bug, and Gemma 4 on iPhone
Five dev-relevant projects and posts that took the HN frontpage this week: from a Go-powered WhatsApp CLI with offline search to on-device Gemma 4 inference.